Monthly Archive for November, 2008

: November, 2008

Microsoft’s Live Cashback program, which gives Live search users who buy selected products a percentage of the purchase price back, was down for much of Black Friday, according to a number of reports. …

According to a report on the Times of London Web site, Microsoft Corp. has resumed its pursuit of Yahoo in a deal that could cost the Redmond-based company $20 billion, less than half of what it offered for the search site this summer. …

For two months in a row now, the Xbox 360 has solidly outsold the PlayStation 3. But in an interview last week, a PlayStation executive said that the Xbox 360’s rise was a “blip” attributable to its September price cut and that the consoles would be neck and neck during the holidays. …

Last week, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team announced that a release candidate of IE8 would be issued in the first quarter of next year, followed some time thereafter with a final release of the new browser. …

Robert Youngjohns chats with the P-I / Brad Vest, Seattle P-I For an article in today’s paper, I talked to Robert Youngjohns, Microsoft’s president of sales and marketing in North America. He joined Microsoft roughly a year ago. Here are some extended excerpts from the conversation. …